Welcome

Welcome and thank you for visiting my website. On my website's eight pages and drop down menus, you can learn about the civil engineering, forensic engineering and insurance investigative services I provide. This information can help you decide if I can determine the cause of your client's problems.

I specialize in civil, foundation and environmental engineering investigation - and the forensic engineering associated with these fields.

My forensic and consulting engineering work is based on 38 years
engineering experience in eastern, western, and northern Canada, offshore
Nova Scotia, the Beaufort Sea, and overseas in the Caribbean, the U.K.
and Australia.

I practiced as a provincial land surveyor on Prince Edward Island,
Canada before studying and practicing civil and forensic engineering.

Website Overview

The contents of my website’s pages are briefly described below:

My Biography page gives a very brief outline of my
qualifications in engineering including degrees in civil engineering, a
diploma in land surveying, my continuing education interests and the
38 years consulting engineering experience I now have working in Canada
and overseas

The pages – Forensic,Civil and Environment, are the main
fields in which I practice. There is a lot of information on each of these
pages, particularly the Forensic page.

Each page outlines the services I provide in these fields then gives
examples of typical projects and cases. You can quickly link to the case
category of particular interest to you, for example, Flooding and Drainage
or Fatal Accidents.

A Guidelines page outlines the procedures I follow in doing my
engineering work. Some of the guidelines are national or widely accepted
standards. Others I developed because of the uniqueness of the problem,
for example, the field testing shown in the photograph on the forensic page.

The Guidelines page also contains useful information on how I gather
and synthesize evidence. Also how I analyse conclusions drawn from the
evidence, formulate an opinion, critically evaluate the opinions of others
and, finally, draft well-written, well-reasoned, impartial reports and opinions.

The procedure I follow in developing my opinion is outlined in a
guideline I’ve developed entitled, “Writing Forensic Engineering Reports and Opinions”. The guideline incorporates the requirements of the recently introduced "Nova Scotia Rule 55 - Expert Opinions". Civil litigation lawyers have taken an interest
in this guideline.

You can e-mail or telephone me from the Contact page if you would like
additional information, my CV, for example, or would like to discuss a
case you are presently working on.

TheFeespage contains a schedule of the fees I charge for my
consulting professional engineering work. My fees are comparable to
those charged by other consultants in eastern Canada and elsewhere in
North America.

Outline: Consulting Engineering Services

The following is a brief outline of the consulting engineering services I provide:

Forensic Engineering Investigative Services

A. Preliminary Forensic Engineering Services

Evaluate the technical strengths, weaknesses and merits of a proposed claim for damages based on existing data and information,

I retain specialists in other fields according to the requirements of a
civil or forensic investigation. Most recently these specialists have
included two structural engineers, a hydrologist, a chemist, a metallurgist,
a metal detectorist, and land surveyors.

The evidence and technical data from the investigations assists in the
resolution of disputes, civil litigation and insurance claims that arise from
engineering failures, traffic accidents, and industrial accidents.

Civil Engineering Investigative Services

Investigate foundation, soil and groundwater conditions at sites proposed for design and construction of new buildings and civil
engineering structures,

Identify suitable foundations to support buildings and civil engineering structures at construction sites,

Determine foundation design parameters.

Environmental Engineering Services

Environmental impact assessments of sites proposed for construction,

Phase I and II environmental site assessments for transfer of title and potential contamination,

Clean-up and remediation of contaminated sites.

Thank you for reading my website’s Home Page. The information on these pages should help you decide if I can solve your client’s problem. I have quite a few years of civil engineering experience – 38 years, and I’m confident this experience will be quite valuable to you. Please view my Biography Page for more information.